mike_esspe

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by mike_esspe 16y ago
I had a similar situation. Got a break from programming for several years and now I like programming even more :) During my break i tried to manage other programmers to program my ideas, but it didn't work very well (only one project, that
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by mike_esspe 16y ago
When your work is fun, that is not a problem at all.
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by mike_esspe 16y ago
I think the problem with mirror test is that elephants and magpies pass it too.
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by mike_esspe 16y ago
If pupils really will widen when you look at someone you love, then that's a cool idea for mobile app "Love detector".
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by mike_esspe 16y ago
If you agree with John Carmack (at least somewhat), then you should read "For a new liberty" by Murray Rothbard: http://mises.org/rothbard/newlibertywhole.asp Where he explains how society can live without taxes extracted by the threat of
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by mike_esspe 16y ago
I can't tell for OkCupid (they are not covering my country well), but i was inspired by it and built a similar app for Russian social network and it worked very well for me.
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by mike_esspe 16y ago
It seems, that when you slow down learning (especially outside your area of expertise and with age), you become more relatively stupid, because the world around you learn faster.
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by mike_esspe 16y ago
Always use encryption, while using open wifi. I use openvpn ( http://openvpn.net/ ) for this.
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by mike_esspe 16y ago
Easy answer to your frustration: you should try to code the project, that can be bootstrapped.
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by mike_esspe 16y ago
Do you know what happened to e-gold ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold#2008_court_trial ) and e-bullion ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Bullion#2008_murder_of_e-Bull... ) owners? Unfortunately, US government doesn't like private cur
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by mike_esspe 16y ago
One of the agents produced a printout of a blog post that Afifi’s friend Khaled allegedly wrote a couple of months ago. It had “something to do with a mall or a bomb,” Afifi said* The nickname of the friend of this student,
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by mike_esspe 16y ago
App engine had big downtime too, due to problem with database re-balancing (though downtime was not as long, as foursquare's).